Is there any way to insert my handwritten signature (saved as .jpg) into a pdf? I have Adobe Acrobat.
If you have Acrobat Pro, you can export your PDF to a jpg and add the signature via your favorite photo editor and then print that picture with an Adobe printer driver to recreate the pdf document.
If you don’t have adobe pro, then open the document so that the entire document is in view. Do a screen capture.
Edit that captured picture by adding your signature to the proper location and then print that picture out with a free adobe printer driver to recreate a pdf. This works well if the document is not too complicated and doesn’t need a high resolution.
If the document requires more detail, you can always take a two screen shots, one of the top and on of the second half of the document. Then, line them up in your photo editor to make the complete high resolution document and add your signature. Then print out as pdf.
You need a good photo editor, not microsoft paint. You can use GIMP for free.
… or you can email it to me and I’ll knock it out in five minutes or less.
Ok, thanks. So there’s no way to insert it directly with Acrobat.
There’s also the option to save as tiff, but it extracts each page individually. Is there any way to extract to a multi-page tiff?
I have Acrobat Pro (older version, 6.0) and have been trying to figure out the same thing, and finally concluded that Acrobat is not a desktop publisher and you cannot insert an image (signature or anything else) and overlay it on an existing page. There is a signature feature but it turns out this is an electronic signature, not an image.
If you have Acrobat Pro, you can do this with the stamp tool, which is under “Commenting Tools.” Use the “Create custom stamp” function to import the .jpg of your signature as a stamp.
If you don’t have Acrobat, use Word 2007 (which has pdf built in). If you don’t have Word 2007, use another word processor and install [url=http://www.primopdf.com/]PrimoPDF**, a free pdf creator.
Copy the text from the pdf into your Word document, tweak the formatting, and then insert the signature. Create a pdf using the above software.
Everyone who works with PDFs in any way would do well to remember this.
My favorite is people who mean to send us Word docs and Excel spreadsheets to us for various modifications … and yet still go through the trouble to create a PDF and send us that 
Dude – you created the original doc – just send that :smack:
I tried this and it works brilliantly!! Thanks. However, note that unless you are using a GIF image with transparent pixels, the stamp will block out text or anything else that it is placed on top of. I tried it with a JPG and then with a GIF with transparency, which works great.
I hereby retract my statement that this is impossible. 
At work we’ve been removing signatures from PDFs. It’s now considered a security risk, i.e., identity theft issue. It’s too easy for some to lift an e-signature from an electronic document and use it somewhere else.
I don’t even sign those electronic signature thingies when I use a credit card. When it asks for my signature I just draw a line across the signature box. So far, no sales clerk has objected.
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I so rarely contribute anything notably helpful in a GD thread!
Good to know about the transparency issue, since I’ve only used this on basic, boring forms.
note to self: steal Duckster’s credit card, buy shit, sign with horizontal line
Me too! Damn, I had no idea. That’s awesome.